Slow is boring. And when you get bored, people get creative. So I couldn't say I wasn't surprised when we received an email from SV Whistler to us and SV Mango Moon, who were all (at one point in time) within 60nm or so of each other. The email was a challenge, disguised as an invitation, to join the North American South Pacific Fishing Tournament. They were very inclusive with the rules allowing points for sightings of albatross, sea mammals, as well as actually catching fish. If you were able to take a picture, you got extra points. FullCircle responded with a resounding - we're "on like donkey kong" (I was told that response was important for purposes of trash talk intimidation in response to the challenge).

When I am bored however, I find that there is only one thng to do, and that is take a nap. The older I get the more I appreciate a good nap - any time of day actually. This, now our second day of motoring, will become yet a third day of motoring tomorrow, because we are going so slow when we are motoring. How slow you ask. Well we only cover about 200nm over the last two days! To add insult to injury we have picked up an adverse current of 0.5 to 1kt of boat speed, slowing us down even more today. And then, we get the news from our weather router that because we are moving so slow, we will miss the wind out ahead of us and leave us motoring for yet another day (at least). So if you are counting that means that we will not arrive Opua until Saturday night late at the earliest, and more likey Sunday - because we are bored, going slow motoring, rather than having fun sailing fast. Oh well - more time for naps.